[Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cygwin - POSIX environment on Windows)
- From: senthils@xxxxxxxxxx (Senthil Anand)
- Date: Tue Nov 17 11:11:53 2009
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:43 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
Hi guys,
You can install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com
You can select their wide cornucopia of packages and you get every
single UNIX utility you can think of.
Even fork(2) works!
It is amazing.
Whenever I am forced to use Windows I do this.
Another option would be Interix which now called Subsystem for
Unix-based Applications (SUA) from Microsoft. It is a 32/64 bit UNIX and
POSIX subsystem for the NT kernel similar to the Win32 subsystem.
When I worked with it a few years ago it was based on the OpenBSD
userland. Its main advantage was that it was a native subsystem unlike
Cygwin which was POSIX on top of Win32. Its main disadvantage is that
the latest version (6, 6.1) needs Vista/Windows 7 Ultimate or
Enterprise. The older 32 bit version (3.5) which works on XP is a free
download till the end of the year.
http://www.suacommunity.com/SUA.aspx
Regards,
Senthil
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